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The Audacity Of Freedom, part 1

October 9th, 2008 · No Comments

From Senator Jim DeMint at The Heritage Foundation:

As Senator Obama said to the applauding socialists in Europe a few weeks ago, he wants to eliminate the distinctions between people and groups; to “tear down walls” between rich and poor, black and white, and the haves and have-nots. He forgets that most of the “haves” [...]

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Tags: Election · Socialism · The Left · The Right · The US

Obama’s “Free” Healthcare

October 7th, 2008 · No Comments

John McCain is not going to raise taxes on middle class families. Barack Obama and Joe Biden are the only candidates in this race that plan to raise taxes.
Barack Obama’s Plan Continues The Push Toward Government-Run Healthcare: The Obama plan will create a brand new government-run health plan at the cost of $243 billion a [...]

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Tags: Election · Employment · Health · Money · Socialism · Taxes · The Left

Further Marxification Of America By The Left

October 1st, 2008 · 3 Comments

From The Hill:

The billionaire financier George Soros, a major Democratic financial backer, is floating his own rescue plan among Democratic lawmakers who are uncertain what to do in the wake of a surprise defeat of a proposed $700 billion rescue package proposed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.
Soros has outlined his plan in an opinion [...]

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Tags: Government · Money · Socialism · Taxes · The Left · The US

The Mechanics Of The Meltdown

September 27th, 2008 · Comments Off

From Investor’s Business Daily:

Obama in a statement yesterday blamed the shocking new round of subprime-related bankruptcies on the free-market system, and specifically the “trickle-down” economics of the Bush administration, which he tried to gig opponent John McCain for wanting to extend.
But it was the Clinton administration, obsessed with multiculturalism, that dictated where mortgage lenders could [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Crime/Law · Election · Government · Money · Politics · Race · Socialism · Taxes · The Left · The US

The Subprime Bailout

September 26th, 2008 · Comments Off

Did you hear of the Grasshopper who sang all summer while the Ant worked hard collecting food?
Well, one cold winter’s night a hungry, miserable little Grasshopper hopped by the window of an Ant, warmly lit up by a lamp.
He peeped in, hoping to find some food on their table to beg. Looking through the glass, [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Election · Government · Money · Politics · Socialism · Taxes · The Left · The Right · The US

The Facts Behind The Sub-prime Mess

September 25th, 2008 · Comments Off

First let’s correctly define the players in the tragedy, something the Liberal media will not do. From Neal Boortz:

OK .. so we all know that a lot of really bad real estate loans were made. The political class would sure love for us to believe that the blame here rests squarely on “greedy” (try [...]

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Tags: Election · Government · Media · Money · Politics · Pork · Socialism · Taxes · The US

Revolution You Can Believe In

September 12th, 2008 · 3 Comments

From The Spectator (UK):

In her game-changing convention speech, Sarah Palin took a swipe at Obama for having been nothing more in his life than a ‘community organiser’.
This prompted the Obama campaign to issue a pained defence of community organisation as a way of promoting social change ‘from the bottom up’. The impression is that community [...]

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Tags: Election · Socialism · The Left · The US

Emperor Obama

August 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments

So the High Holy Obamessiah will finally make his grand entrance tonight at the DNC circus, and he’ll do so not in any hall or convention center … he’ll do it in